Heather, I have Q's about the cookbook
#16486 - 08/06/03 01:10 PM
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I just bought the cookbook last night and have already made the chocolate applesauce cake (yummy and my house smells so good!), the cinnamon zucchini bread, and the chocolate peppermint cake is in the oven.
I have some questions though. I have never used unbleached flour before. What is the difference between this and regular all-purpose flour? Why use this instead? If a non-IBS'er wanted to make the cakes and use all-purpose flour, would this be ok?
What in the heck is "orange oil" listed in the recipe for the Mandarin Orange Sponge cake? Is that like an orange extract?
Are soy milk and rice milk interchangeable in the recipes? I cannot tolerate soy milk, so I buy the rice milk instead. Can I use it instead of the soy milk in recipes such as the Double Decker pecan pie?
By the way, when I went to the counter at Border's Book Store to pick up the cookbook, the clerk read the front and back cover before handing it to me. I wondered why she was so interested in it. Later, when I paid for it, she said she has IBS and had never seen the cookbook. She wanted to know if I had heard anything about it, so I told her about your first book and the website and she wrote it down. You owe me for the pr work! Ha!
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Hi there - Okay, for your questions:
"I have never used unbleached flour before. What is the difference between this and regular all-purpose flour? Why use this instead? If a non-IBS'er wanted to make the cakes and use all-purpose flour, would this be ok?"
I specify unbleached simply because when you bleach flour, you're adding a chemical to it, and I always try to avoid as many chemicals, preservatives, etc. when cooking for IBS. The recipes themselves will come out just fine with bleached flour. And your IBS will probably be fine with the bleached flour also, but I simply try to remove all possible aggravating factors.
"What in the heck is "orange oil" listed in the recipe for the Mandarin Orange Sponge cake? Is that like an orange extract?"
It's literally oil pressed from orange zest - very intense and you use a teeny weenie amount. You could certainly use orange extract instead.
"Are soy milk and rice milk interchangeable in the recipes?"
Almost always, yes. You'll get creamier results in the chowders and custards and puddings with soy milk, but it's not a huge difference. For baking there's really no difference at all.
And hey, thanks for the PR at Borders! I appreciate that. 
- H
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